Garment hanger



Nov. 10, 1942. H, H, IT ANN' 2,301,814

GARMENT HANGER Filed May 1a, 1942 Jitorneya Patented Nov. 10, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

GARMENT HANGER Harold H. Ritzmann, Riverside, 111.

Application May 18, 1942, Serial No. 443,394

2 Clailns.

This invention relates to a garment hanger.

More particularly, this invention relates to a garment hanger of the character employed for hanging garments such as mens and womens suits, womens dresses and the like.

An object of the invention is to aflord a new and improved and relatively inexpensive garment hanger intended to take the place of the wooden and wire garment hangers heretofore commonly employed.

A further object of the invention is to aiiord a new and improved garment hanger formed from a single blank of relatively strong paper board or like material and which is so constructed and arranged that the supporting arms embodied therein are stamped out of the same blank as that from'which the body of the new garment hanger is made.

An additional object of the invention is to form the new garment hanger in such a manner that the supporting arms embodied therein will resist the stresses and strains to which such garment hangers are subjected in use, including the tearing and like stresses to which such garment hangers are subjected when mounted in delivery trucks and the like and in which such loaded garment hangers tend to sway or rock laterally to and fro due to the weight of the garments carried thereby, thus exerting a tearing stress upon the supporting arm or arms of the garment hanger.

A further object of the invention is to afford a new and improved garment hanger made from a single blank of fiberboard, paper board, cardboard, or like material and having means embodied therein for supporting trousers or like garments in addition to coats and other garments which may be carried by such garment hangers.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a front elev-ational view of a preferred form of the new garment hanger and showing the supporting arms after the operation of forming the same but prior to the time they are raised into supporting position;

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical central sectional view on line 2--2 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a front elevational view of the garment hanger shown in Figs. 1 and 2 but showing the supporting arms in raised or extended position;

Fig. 4 is an edge elevational view on line 44 in Fig.3; and

Fig. 5 is a front elevational view of a slightly modified form of the new garment hanger.

A preferred form of the new garment hanger is illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, inclusive, wherein the same is generally indicated at I0 and comprises a unitary body I I made from a single blank of relatively strong paper board, cardboard, or like material, and for which purpose double lined fiberboard, approximately 0.045 in thickness is suitable. It has been found that this material is particularly suitable for use in making the new garment hanger since it prevents tearing or scratching of silks and other like relatively fine garments which may be carried thereby.

In the practice of the present invention, the body II from which the new garment hanger is formed'is formed of a shape suitable for receiving mens and womens gar-ments such as suits, womens dresses, and the like, and in order to provide for hanging garments thereby the body I I has formed therein, and integrally therewith, two similar and complementary and substantially hook-shaped supporting arms I4 and I5 which may be formed in the body I I in any suitable manner, as by means of a die cutting operation, thereby providing correspondingly shaped openings I2 and I3.

It will be noted, in this connection, that the substantially hook-shaped supporting arms I4 and I5 are only partially cut or severed from the body II of the new garment hanger I0 so that they are integrally connected to the body I I of the new garment hanger I 0 along fold lines I6 and I1, respectively, which extend along lines which, if extended or continued downwardly, would intercept each other in a substantially V-shaped formation, approximately along the transverse vertical center line of the body of the new garment hanger, as may be seen by reference to Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawing of this application.

It will be noted by reference to Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, that the substantially hook-shaped supporting arms I4 and I5 are so formed from or in the body that they are foldable upwardly, in complementary relationship, but on opposite sides of the body II, so that they complement and 00- act with each other to form a support for suspending the new garment hanger IIi, with a garment or garments thereon, from a suitable support such as a garment hook, supporting rod or the like.

It will also be noted that by reason of the fact that the substantially hook-shaped supporting arms I4 and I5 are designed to be arranged on opposite sides of the body II,'the new garment hanger thus afiorded resists tearing and other stresses which may be exerted upon the supporting arms I4 and I5, particularly along their points of connection or fold lines l6 and I1, respectively, with the body ll. Such tearing and other stresses result particularly from rocking or to and fro motion of garment hangers carried in delivery trucks and the like and in which it is common for a relatively large number and consequently relatively heavy mass of such garments suspended on hangers to set up a rocking or back and forth motion which would tend to tear the supporting arms I l and [5 from the body H if it were not for the fact that the supporting arms l4 and 15 are united to the body II at their fold lines l6 and I1 and on opposite sides of the body H.

The preferred form of the new garment hanger, as shown in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, may'also be provided with a cut-out opening or slot 18 adapted to receive trousers or other garments, this opening being afforded by cutting a flap l9 in the blank I l which is foldable downwardly, relative to the body H, and is integrally connected therewith, along a fold line 20, so as to provide the opening or slot l8 for the reception of trousers or other garments.

A slightly modified form of the invention is illustrated in Fig. 5 and this form of the invention is substantially the same as that shown in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, but differs therefrom by omitting the garment-receiving opening or slot l8 and the tongue or downwardly folded flap l9 afforded thereby.

Parts which are embodied in the form of the invention which is illustrated in Fig. 5 have been given the same reference numbers as those which have been used in describing the form of the invention which is shown in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive,

plus the reference letter a. Hence, it is deemed unnecessary to repeat the description of these parts in the form of the invention shown in Fig. 5 and an understanding of the same may be had by reference to the description of corresponding parts which are referred to in the description of that form of the invention which is shown in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive.

I claim:

1. A garment hanger comprising a body having a pair of substantially hook-shaped supporting arms formed integrally therewith by cutting out portions of said body, said substantially hookshaped supporting arms being integrally connected to said body upon fold lines and being normally disposed substantially within the plane of said body, but said substantially hook-shaped supporting arms being foldable along said fold lines upwardly relative to said body and upon opposite sides thereof into a position substantially centrally of said body and when thus disposed said substantially hook-shaped arms having portions thereof projecting above said body and cooperating with each other to afford a hook for suspending the said garment hanger from a support.

2. A garment hanger as defined in claim 1 in which said substantially hook-shaped supporting arms are integrally joined to the body of said garment hanger by fold lines arranged at opposite sides of the transverse vertical center line of said body and in which said fold lines, if ex-- tended downwardly, would pass through the transverse vertical center line of said body.

HAROLD H. RITZMANN. 

